EUROSAI. Magazine N21 - 2015

EUROPEAN ORGANISATION OF SUPREME AUDIT INSTITUTIONS Information on EU 44 www.eurosai.org · N.º 21 - 2015 • • Opinion No 2/2015 on a proposal for an amended Financial Regulation of the Community Plant Variety Office. • • Opinion No 3/2015 on a proposal for the Financial Regulation of the Single Resolution Board laying down the financial provisions applicable to the Board. • • Opinion No 4/2015 concerning the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Fund for Strategic Investments and amending Regulations (EU) No 1291/2013 and (EU) No 1316/2013. • • Opinion No 5/2015 on a proposal for an amended Regulation of the Budget Committee of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market laying down the financial provisions applicable to the Office. • • Opinion No 6/2015 on a proposal for an amended Financial Regulation of the Single Resolution Board laying down the financial provisions applicable to the Board. • • Opinion No 7/2015 concerning a proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 609/2014 on the methods and procedure for making available the traditional, VAT and GNI-based own resources and on the measures to meet cash requirements. • • Opinion No 8/2015 on a proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 2015/323 of 2 March 2015 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the 11th European Development Fund. Moreover, 51 specific annual reports on the European agencies and other decentralised bodies have been completed and published. The reports include an opinion on the reliability of their 2014 financial statements and on the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions. In order to facilitate the analysis and comparison of the ECA’s specific reports, the ECA also produced two summaries providing overviews on the results of the ECA’s annual audits of the agencies and of the Joint Undertakings for the financial year 2014. The ECA’s Annual Activity Report for 2014 was published in April 2015. It provides an overview of the key results and achievements during the previous year as well as the main developments in its audit environment and internal organisation. ECA’s reports, opinions and other public documents can be found on: http://www.eca.europa.eu . Following nomination from her Member State, and after consultation with the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union appointed Bettina Jakobsen a Member of the European Court of Auditors from 1 September 2015 to 28 February 2018, to replace Henrik Otbo who passed away on 1 February 2015. A NEW MEMBER JOINS THE EUROPEAN COURT OF AUDITORS